Abdarainurus barsboldi
"Abdrant Nuru tail"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Abdarainurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (85–72.1 Mya)
- Place
- Asia · Mongolia
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Abdarainurus (meaning “Abdrant Nuru tail” after the holotype locality) is a genus of titanosaur dinosaur from the Alagteeg Formation in Mongolia. The type and only species is A. barsboldi. Currently seen as an indeterminate titanosaur, it may represent a previously unknown lineage of Asian macronarians. Abdarainurus is not known from many remains; it is only known from eight front tail vertebrae and a middle tail vertebra and several chevrons.
What we know
- Named by Averianov & Lopatin, 2020.
- Fossils found in Asia and Mongolia.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Abdarainurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.